The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-29
DASHED INTO ETERNITY.
EIGHTKILLED AND SIX INJURED ON
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

A Car Wheel of a Coal Train Bursts,
Throwing the Car Against Passing
Passenger Train, Demolishing a
Coach and Killing Eight Persons and
Seriously Wounding Six.
PIrrsBURG, PA, May 2S.--The latest re-
norts from the scene of the accident at
Horseshoe bend, on the Pennsylvania rail
way, last night, state that eight were killed
and six injured. -Four were killed outright
and the others have since died. The Inflated
train arrived at the union depot in this city
at 4:30 o'clock this morning with SOME
ninety passengers aboard. For four long
hours group of anxious mortals paced up
and down the passageways, lingering i'm
patiently and in awful suspense regarding
the fate of their friends who had taken pas
sage on the fast line and were expected to
arrive in the city at :55 o'clock last night.
NO RELIABLE INFORMATION.
Many were the inquiries of depot officials
regarding the nature of the terrible acct
dent of which all had heard But either
they could not or would not give any par
tclllars Every minute seemed an hour to
the waiting crowd, and when the shrill
whistle at last signalled the arrival of the
wrecked trains all eyes were turned toward
it. Almost the first person to step from the
train was Miss Mcmahon, schoolteacher
in Florida, who was on her way to her
home in Beaver Falls, this State.
STATEMENTS OF EYE-wITNEssEs.
Miss Mcmahon furnished the first re-
liable account of the awful collision which
overlook the fast line train. The story is
best told in her own words, as follows: II
was sitting about the middle of the second
coach from the engine. The train was run
ming at high rate of speed When the &C
cident happened the shock was terrific. l
was thrown with violence against the seat
in front of me, and the train stopped sud
denly In minute all was confusion, and
was at loss to know what had happened.
/ soon heard shrieks from the pas
sengers in the coach in the rear
of the one l was in. and at once knew that
something awful had happened. raised the
window and looked out The sight fright
ened me, as the entire sides of the two
coaches Immediately in the rear of the one
| was in were crushed in. l could see the
passengers climbing out over the coal cars
lying on the adjoining track The passen-
gers who were not injured assisted in remov-
ing the killed and wounded. 1t was
sight that l will never forget Several
women in the car swooned away when they
saw what had happened"
J. H. Peach, Of Bellevue, Miffiin county,
this State was a passenger on the third
coach from the smoking car, and gave
graphic account of the heartr1nding scenes
which fol- 'wed the death-dealing crash: 81
was sitting, he said, ''about four seats to
the rear of Dale Graham when the trains
colhded. The entire side of our coach was
crushed in and young Graham was literally
buried beneath the ruins. But no moan
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instantly, for he was about the first victim
we set about to recover. When extricated
from the wreck his form was lifeless. The
side of the car was crushed down on top OF
him, and this with large quantity of coal
from the freight car, had crushed the young
mans life out before any assistance could be
rendered.
HORRIFYING SIGHTS.
II never want to witness such distressing
scenes again. 1t makes my flesh culver
when | think about it. The piercing shrieks
of the women, mingled with the agonizing
cries of the men, completely overpowers
me even now, although when the sad
calamity occurred 1 managed to keep pos
session OF my senses and aided in
rescuing the victims to the best of
my ability. We must have been running at
the rate of about thirty miles an hour at the
time the collision occurred, and the freight,
Snouid Judge, was gong aDout Twelve
miles an hour. The freight was heavily
loaded, and the terrible crash caused a panic
among the passengers. / an surprised that
three times as many were not dashed into
eternity"
THE OFFICIAL LIST.
The official list OF the killed and injured,
furnished by the railroad company, gives
six killed and eight injured The names of
the killed are as follows: Dale B. Graham,
son of ex-Speaker Graham, of Allegheny;
Wymer Snyder, of Shamokin, Pa; J.
Doris, of East Liberty, newsboy; j. II.
Stauffer, of Louisville, o. Chas Beidleman,
Of Brinsfeld, Ind. Chas. Emorrell, of No. IS
East Fifty third street, New York. Two of
the eight injured are reported dead, but the
report is not confirmed. Neither train was
running at high speed or the disaster
would have been greater.